Re: [WiX-users] Major upgrade scenario problem

2008-10-19 Thread Alexander Shevchuk
rry for the bad news. Alex -Original Message- From: Amit Shrivastav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 1:20 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Major upgrade scenario problem Hi Alexander, There is one more option

Re: [WiX-users] Major upgrade scenario problem

2008-10-19 Thread Amit Shrivastav
Hi Alexander, There is one more option i think...place RemoveExistingProduct after the tag InstallFinalize. Keep that Config files in the separate component. On the base of keeping RemoveExistingProduct it will not remove all the other files based on the latest versions of the files. And which fil

Re: [WiX-users] Major upgrade scenario problem

2008-10-19 Thread Alexander Shevchuk
Amit, That is how major upgrade works. If you want to preserve Config files during major upgrade you have to either copy files to temp folder before upgrade and restore them after or you need to write custom action which will read the changes from the Config files, preserve them somewhere (lik